Aretha Franklin: Amazing Grace (1972)

[00:00]if you guys remember our beauty and the beast episode where i was delayed like eight seconds a year ago that's the state i'm in today so you'll have to work okay again you're referring to beauty and the beast the uh ron perlman sarah connor i don't remember her name uh show okay which was a very normal show where a woman was simply dating a beast who lived in the sewer rob definitely been a few nights where you left marks on the couch after that episode linda linda hamilton yeah linda hamilton yeah she was a terminator oh she was beauty not the beast

[00:35]well she was not the terminator russell i mean how would you like me and ron perlman and being like known for man i'm so fucking ugly yeah that they can put me like they don't even have to dress me up like an animal in this show they just say i'm the beast yeah no it's like it's like we went on to bigger and better things he was a hellboy and clay from uh sons of anarchy what a creaks all of them need to look like freaks like there is no makeup on him in the uh in that hellboy he looks he looks like

[01:02]that's just how he is i will say this at one point me and the uh the landlord i think you'd call her at this point oh that's the landlord who did watch the script maybe the first show we ever watched together like episodes or episode by episode was sons of anarchy and at one point we did google that um ron perlman had uh traded in his older wife for a younger new wife and we had a discussion about um whether that was an okay thing to do like because you said the clock

[01:33]is ticking i'm just saying there's there's a difference in one versus two that's what that's what manny's always talking about right he's always talking about every time every time manny texts he's always texting about i can't wait to trade in my wife yeah i can't wait to trade in my wife well you know when i turned my goal was when i turned 40 i was going to trade her in for 220s but it didn't and i realize now i haven't told that joke in three years i'm kind of depressed actually

[02:01]all right let's get started in 2020 four friends decided to listen to every one of the greatest 500 albums as decided by rolling stone magazine this resulted in a text chain that celebrated the music excoriated the order and led us to making this podcast we are far from experts we promise to do almost no research all opinions are our own unless you disagree now what's this next video i brought up here what's this oh yeah it's a nice one uh please sit back and enjoy beck did it better we are all the way up to album 154 and from 1972 we've got a live one

[02:34]it's amazing grace by the queen of soul aretha wow franklin hey rob real quick i gotta ask you something are there any youtube comments on that gong sound youtube video that you use like do people comment on it or not uh let's see there is one comment oh no excuse me you think i can't get back to a page you think i'm not someone's internet wizard where i can get back to a page reopen close you know what i'm doing here uh let's see okay so wait a minute please just ignore what i said

[03:04]earlier my internet wizard just let me comments are turned off why would you turn comments off i would say off on the gong sound i would say uh that's a hit from the gong if i could put a comment on that rob just start just start clicking on those gongs to the right there yeah you find one that has comments okay let's look at some comments on it okay internet gong is a minute these gong songs are an hour long you pass like three of them up above

[03:32]there's a bunch of where russell thinks as a teacher i don't know how to navigate youtube in a fast manner okay what's that one right there right here wow 2020 oh that's a i'll tell you what comments or no that is a long gong 46 000 views they get way more views than our podcast just a gong sound we should just replace this pocket

[04:01]you know what holland oats would say to this though what's that now she's gone comments are turned off again are you on some kind of incognito youtube browsing thing i don't know i'm on my dad's computer yeah we're on a vpn and a incognito it's so weird uh is there is big gong and literally that was a big gong that we heard is big gong holding comments back on youtube like is there some sort of gong conspiracy oh so wait a minute

[04:33]aliens have landed some guy told some guy who went and testified for congress and big gong doesn't allow comments two equally interesting things this week in the news don't say back to the better didn't teach you anything you know who you know who the only people in the world that are bigger losers than us is people that put gong sounds on youtube like the person that is doing this and putting it up on youtube bigger loser than the four of us dude i don't know that rules it was the problem is is that jackass is probably making money off that gong sound from

[05:03]all the ads that it's popping up so listen let's get into it guys let's just turn on the radio listen we're up north we're all roasting it's h8h hot as hell up here let's turn on the radio and see maybe there's a song that maybe was covered on this album that is on the radio but it's not the actual version from the album because that would be impossible here we go but the fact that i did write a new song i just want to say it shows how hard i'm working because i could have just used an older reetha song about aaron's loving feet which is one of my favorites but

[05:32]here we go what's up everybody welcome to k-rob k-r-o-b you know this show's about a lot of things but it really is about friendship oh yeah i went for a boat ride with russell and we made a little plan we would make a podcast about the top 500 albans and now i think it's been three years since we began

[06:11]and i thought that things would be different by now i just want a little more fame and i'll do whatever i can would this show be better

[06:34]if it was just me and aaron i'm honored this took a baby i'm thinking too small do i really need these calls at all until i'm famous yeah yeah yeah yeah i'll have to pretend that these guys are my friends

[07:05]that's intense that's some art there yeah right because you're just playing a character right just playing a character you know what's worse than doing a parody song in front of your whole family at the cabin coming up with one when it's really hot out this song i've got the perfect podcast for you jack beck did it better i had so many versions of that where it was just terrible

[07:31]like this podcast should end and i was like i can't do this it's too real okay let's talk about that later all right so welcome to beck did it better and listen okay i've got four guys here who uh who oh okay this one who uh love music and church in fact uh we're gonna open our bible today uh to the to the shirt to the part about shrek to the part about shrek can you open it please to song i didn't steal it from somebody on twitter

[08:11]go look at uh a picture of the lead singer from smash smash mouth and why was i not a singer in the 90s god i could have been so fucking rich god i look like your hair up and you wear a funny shirt i mean is it the same guy that was in sugar ray no my god mcgrath oh oh do you watch entertainment tonight

[08:31]yeah what are you talking about bro bro smash mouth and mark mcgrath now them on together at a show is smash mouth guy the same as guy fieri no smash mouth guy now didn't he do a solo what was the guy who did the song where it's just a guitar i know what it's like what it's like who's that the lead singer everlast from house of pain oh my god aaron that was so good that you got it from my song i'm such a good singer this is crazy

[09:00]i've got four guys it's almost called the blues of whitey ford or whitey ford sings the blues or something like that whitey ford sings the blues yeah so yeah do you ever forget something that your wife told you to do like on saturday and then you realize that you have that knowledge in your head yeah yeah and then she listens to this podcast yeah and then she's like well i asked you to clean up the cat puke off the steps and you forgot that but you remember whitey ford sings the blues yeah she's like i noticed that you talk a lot with your friends and you're not just wearing noise cancelling headphones walking around the apartment i gotta ask garrett so these cats that aren't yours that you like just put food out there

[09:32]they puke on your doorstep and you still just are like yeah come on by yeah and we're stuck with them now what are we gonna do kill them i mean like just a gray area i think yeah yes what will come by every day what will these nature's perfect hunters do if i don't feed them i wonder what will i have no idea i've been to aaron and he lets them into the house too oh my god terrible you let feral cats into the house aaron

[10:00]sure they come in and then they leave oh my god the first time i got an itch on my leg i'd be like jesus christ i got fleas so bad all right listen i've got three guys here matt in north dakota tonight matt uh how are you doing tonight up in nodak uh i'm gonna shout all my troubles over this podcast it's not about wreath franklin i've got russell in northern minnesota russell how are you doing tonight guys i once was lost but now i'm back in the house i found i was blind but now i see that rob and his podcast have ruined my only vacation

[10:33]that i get to take all year because i had to come in from outside at the fire with friends and family to record with you guys so oh no thanks for nothing assholes yeah yeah me too i've been hanging out with my i haven't hung out with my family enough i wish i could hang out a little more i'm so sad to be here with you guys yeah yeah yeah last time i didn't make a two-hour episode because i wasn't trying to get away all right and of course i'm going to be here with you guys you're like four days off a year

[11:00]rob's gonna do this oh yeah your work your work vacations 10 10 days of traveling around plus you went to mexico this year i know you went to mexico this year yeah you're at the trip to mexico that we all talked about all right we're not talking about that anymore most of us talked about it some of us talked yeah seemed to think it was fine to be she was on the text chain oh said the name oh god damn can't be doing that all right and i've got uh four i've got aaron here

[11:31]who thought that instead of the album amazing grace that we were watching the show amazing race and he was excited because he loves reality tv because he does not support the writers in this strike he told me before we started that he's more anti-union than robert e lee that is so what the heck aaron aaron hang on he's been waving this flag all night it's kind of i just some would say it's appropriate but i'll be right but just wait it's about unions he says oh no he is aaron is getting up his headphones apparently are wireless

[12:00]because he's just walking out no wonder they don't work for shit can you imagine like he had a work call with that guy and he like what do you say to that audio quality what do you say to him when he says does my headphones sound good i mean no they don't oh shit he can hear us though because it's wireless how do you even think of that god i had to go just i had to go it looks like aaron went and got a la croix again aaron i went to get an anchor steam union made beer i went to go get a union made beer just to fight against all that slander but i wanted to say i'm excited about it i'm excited to be here with you guys who make me feel make me feel safe

[12:30]so safe so safe so safe let's talk about everything those cats are never coming back again oh no aaron i just imagine a wild animal's outside you let it into your house there that's the end that's the story right there that's aaron's life that's the story that's how i live in so aaron the first time you guys let that like is there a discussion with you and your wife or does one of you just do it the other one's like what in the fuck are you doing what are you doing what are you doing and then like like there's no way you just like i'll just say this

[13:00]i would be sure to co-tenant if we just had a random cat that's staying in our house i think we've discussed this though matt go ahead matt matt you see you see how it works you kind of have a little bit of a reason right little old lady across the street they're her cats and basically somebody had to sort of take care of them yeah so they're not fully they're not entirely feral they belonged to the lady who lived next door she wouldn't live she wouldn't live she's dead now yeah yeah yeah she went into assisted living

[13:30]she didn't have to feed the cats for a while because they did feast on her corpse but and she went into assisted living and while our house was up for sale the neighborhood took care of the cats and then like suckers we were like sure we'll feed those cats and so they've been indoor outdoor cats before like this is not the first time they don't sleep indoors right no no alice would sleep indoors but i kick her out at night because i don't want to have a litter box do you know where they sleep like do you do you have any idea yeah there's a neighbor across the street that has like a little cardboard kingdom for them

[14:01]so that's where they sleep jesus christ so do you ever do you ever wake up in like the occasional time where you do have to wear pants you go in and like you put on pants you've got cat hair all over them or does that not happen yet no not really his wife doesn't let him his wife doesn't let him wear pants yeah yeah i mean why would you cover this up i got these worms around my asshole where do they come from it's so weird uh no they're not in here for very long so like i'm not covered in cat hair it's like it's best of both worlds like the cats show up every day it's like an exciting thing like oh alice is here for breakfast and they're like give her some food she takes off

[14:30]she comes back for dinner sometimes she comes in in the evening sometimes not then you throw her out at night it's like living on a farm no it's no no they do not let the animal you do not let the animals inside on a farm aaron you don't that's true nobody lets the horses in at night i've also noticed that that aaron is now on his zoom site and is going by ar like is this what you go by at work aaron like does it like do you insist that people call you ar yeah the problem is i'll just put 15 just put 15 14 people had the username

[15:00]so i had to put ar 15 i know because i'm on my work that's what i'm asking at work this is what you have people call you i sign emails that way sometimes oh my god you sign emails oh well we can't say any of this right well no i guess we can ar it's fine nobody knows like you sign emails it's true i'm a ross child ar now everybody knows oh we should why am i paying the hosting fees for this podcast that appeared russell what is the appropriate sign off

[15:30]for an email at work is it thanks have a great day i'm a thanks i'm a thanks comma name underneath i've got colleagues that do regards i don't quite get the regards one i've got colleagues that do best i don't get that one i don't like that no matter i'm a thanks russ or russell after every email no matter what it is i do not trust a best yeah i agree with you know anybody with the best you just can't trust can i tell you something first of all i do please let me know if you have any questions because that's a sign please don't let me know

[16:00]if you have any questions it's the people that do dear to me that's the one that gets me i'm like we are not you are not in love with me i am not your dear you know rob you do not need to do not send me that i am not at the civil war with aaron okay fighting on the south is when we reenacted he makes me be in the south um and yeah because i want to be on the north boom you'd be against me aaron brother against brother yeah man it happens story as old as time

[16:30]is this our role-playing section this is the role it's our larping it's our yeah i made a cardboard bayonet oh um i've got i've got cardboard infection in my heel as abraham lincoln's son tad who died at that all right so now that you guys have learned something from this podcast once again appreciate you listen can i just say this before we get to the voicemail and the voicemail is more important than this no you know what let's do the voicemail first here let's get into the voicemail by the way

[17:06]tons of voicemails we don't need any pull up okay don't need any see you later swimming in voicemails i've heard from i've heard from friends via text chain that that the voicemail is often full is that true that you don't delete them and that's people call in and it's full i i i don't know i've never called the voicemail it can't be full it can't be we've had multiple texts from people saying that it is full

[17:30]when people try we have not had those texts i have never gotten those texts why would you not forward me one of those texts and just let me know give me a heads up baby how do you forward a text well i don't know aaron copy and send copy paste yeah ar love ar best all right let's get into dear rob looking to get some advice fellas i've been trying for the longest time to talk all of the tenants in my household to stop celebrating birthdays

[18:00]and start celebrating achievement days so every year on january 1st you get to reflect on the past year decide what your major life accomplishment was and pick that corresponding day in the new year to celebrate as an achievement day you can keep that achievement day for several years if nothing else comes up or you can pick a new one each year on the flip side if you get to that first you have nothing to celebrate now it's reflection time you gotta pick it up in the next year you have something to celebrate for example

[18:30]achievement days could be aaron makes anus without his face melting off rob consumes the most cadbury eggs he's ever had in one 24 hour period play the hits all right guys interested in okay now first of all let me just say a couple things this sounds like a guy who's got a number of posters in his house like be better than you were the day you know what i mean like this guy as a kid definitely had a picture of michael jordan dunky and it said like determination and then like defined it underneath you know where he's like i'm gonna be better every year guess what i'm gonna celebrate

[19:01]my birthday okay don't tell me to not celebrate my birthday why can't we do both i'm not getting oh i'm getting rid of my birthday for an achievement day that was the most insane thing i've ever heard god these callers i i i think uh people who ask about achievements are typically very physically fit too like like they're they're like running their fastest time they're running their fastest marathon they're they're achieving something when they're lifting they're essentially putting it on you to be like guess how much more i've accomplished than you have this year i think it's kind of

[19:30]like a fuck you question yeah i like this though i like celebrating achievements in life the caller did not specifically mention physical achievements except for rob eating the cadbury eggs which would be a chicken anus now what do you think you could eat more of cadbury eggs cut in half or deviled eggs they're both disgusting god i want to try so wait you gotta have like a week to recover in between right so you do like one deviled egg day and then a week later you do cadbury egg day i bet i could do more deviled eggs but it'd be close i think i could too i don't know

[20:00]i don't know oh man i mean one would make you so constipated and i think the other one would help after but so aaron what would you pick for your achievement day tell me about your achievement day what are we celebrating in aaron's family the cats are all over okay what are we celebrating for aaron's achievement day this is so this is this is highly personal and it's probably not going to be funny which is rob's least favorite thing on the podcast if i say something that's not funny can't imagine i think for me this is something i'm still really working on and there's some

[20:30]recency bias here so this just happened shit it happened a week ago tonight we were at a birthday party for a friend of my son's and it's at our former neighbor's house it's the people that we live next to for my son's entire life and we had so many really rough exits from that place like every time like he'd we'd go over there to have a play date and every time we left he would melt down and i would go off the rails and i would make it worse yeah and we had a bad one uh not that

[21:01]long ago so i really tried to to figure out a way that i would not escalate the situation and so this last time we were over there now they got like they got a fucking zip line in their backyard they got like all kinds of stuff to play with like the kids do not want to leave you're like we got a feral cat yeah the kids do not want to leave this place like it it just makes me way better than you and rosie's wife at gmail.com i don't want to come to your house your dad just makes us pick up figs right no oh hey listen no these people they would they would come pick pigs like these people

[21:31]would come pick figs like don't know what that means oh man like no these people are from berkeley they would come over and pick figs for hours on end if i gave them the opportunity that's a whole different story but we were over there a week ago tonight and things were going off the rails my son ran by and punched me in the stomach when i told him we had five minutes left to go but i i kept my cool i didn't blow up we got home we had a smooth transition out of that place and for me that's my achievement day so that was a like that was something i had like i'm still

[22:00]working at it and i'm trying to get better but i didn't escalate a situation that didn't sounds like an unchecked physical assault to me yeah it's so aaron the only reason i'm laughing is because a i love to think of you one day on the toilet and then like your son comes in and beats you up and films it and gets a show on mtv like famous for picking up that's gonna happen to me but it's also because i think we've all been there as parents where your kids are being such dipshits they're just being the best and you just want to tell them like you fucking get in the fucking car right now i'm so bad at you of

[22:30]course and you can't and they come they punch you and you have to be like uh-huh let's not be too physical and you really want to be like give them a stone cold stunner like right away that's the only thing you want to do is show them who's boss yeah so i'm really working on that so that's my achievement day just one week ago tonight so very well aaron that story made me so sad that that's your achievement day for the year that's a real bummer it was not funny and in fact it was quite the opposite i warned you man all right my my life seems so good now i have to say my life seems awesome even though i am roasting in

[23:00]a bathroom what do you other guys go do i have to call in a bathroom with like that'd be a name for a band roasting in a bathroom i love that as a name i've got three three achievements to share um the first relates to one of my nephews as you guys know one of my proudest things that i am is i think i'm a very good uncle and one of my nephews he's he's turning eight in january and i got a phone call you know the age of your nephews already well there's a reason

[23:31]i don't think i know i gotta be careful here we definitely have listeners um but but my nephew i got a call from my brother's phone a few weeks ago two weeks ago i was like well this is odd he does my brother's kind of a quieter dude he's not one to call and just call and chat for a few hours if you will so it's my brother and it's my nephew and he's like uncle russ i told my dad we need to go see pro wrestling by my eighth birthday or else and so he's like

[24:01]we dad and i want to come down we want to go see monday night raw at target center in a few weeks and so i felt like this was like an achievement of like all these old school wrestling t-shirts i've been buying all the action figures all all the rings you know talking to him about the old pay-per-views and all this stuff he has finally become like a legit fan he's in he is he is all in so i'm so in a week from now my brother my nephew and i are going to be going to monday night raw and the best part was my

[24:31]nephew also whoops sorry my nephew also said and uncle russ i want vip seats whatever that means i think that just means he wants to sit way down in front right like yeah of course but if your nephew says he wants vip seats what do you got to do oh you got a 100 percent you got are you gonna get are you getting him on camera side russell so you guys are on camera before you tell me where do i get a bat well i don't know i mean you have to if you can right you're either on the ring on the run

[25:00]up to the yep to the ring right so the pathway from the back of the stage up to the ring or you got to be on the back side where that you you find you go and you find which way the cameras are pointing and you get back there so you could be on tv so do you want to do but do you want to be on tv or do you want to be where they're constantly facing you because they're facing the camera i you definitely want to be on tv because then that kid is going to be on tv and i think i don't know i haven't watched in years but everybody used to have signs right you try to get your sign on on the on the

[25:30]broadcast and everything and you know they end up running around the back of the ring there all the time right there so so my nephew is officially pumped for this man i'll it's so good last time you give me uh advice on tickets your advice wasn't always the best but um so i've tended to shy away from everything you tell me do the opposite it's opposite but i will say i was up and i was like i saw my nephew up at cole's resort in bemidji minnesota today or the home of the wife swap and he was pulling out all these action figures and the

[26:01]wife swap coming together finally he had this moment where he pulled out a diesel action figure and a scott hall nwo and he was like my dad told me these were two of the founding members of nwo and he goes i know about wcw uncle russ and i was like you are a king right now yeah so the fact that i have helped my my nephew become the kid who is going to be like the wrestling the pro wrestling kid at school which is i mean it went great for me with the ladies in high school yeah but the fact that

[26:31]like all my efforts as an uncle are finally paying off with one of my nephews being into wrestling i thought was a great achievement is that fair oh yeah it's a good one you offer your nephew a beer and he takes it and you and you gotta stun him there's just no other way you have you should have known and then you take two and slam them together and yeah that's a that's a mad scene up in north dakota right now middle finger now russell let me ask you this russell are you up to date on wrestling right now or are you do you have to do some sort of speed read wikipedia

[27:00]like if if if the if people's intro music plays are you going to stand up and be like holy shit that's the speed when you're talking about wrestlers oh that's because they do some speed when you're talking about wrestlers you should just get blasted right this is going to be rob is this going to be our legion of dune hawk episode i feel like he died a while back we can get into that one right what a wreck right russell all right so so far you have mentioned the nwo and

[27:31]legion of doom so i'm thinking you are not quite caught up on modern i think i'm caught up i think i mean matt you've been to a show i haven't been to a show but my favorite new group bushwhackers oh yeah i like the ones where the uh the saudis are in charge oh wait that's all of them now i think i know enough rob to get by like i all know the big five or ten superstars or whatever if their music goes i think i'll know who they are so i think i'll be all right who's who's

[28:00]number one right now in wrestling i think it's the tribal chief roman reigns right he's been the champ for like four or five years there you go if i know the champion i'm good yeah the only thing i read was that brock lesnar is still like the highest paid guy in wwe is that yeah brock lesnar so he shows up like twice a month or something like that really the problem with this though is is tempering expectations because when you go to like a monday night raw that's like a tv show like you don't see brock lesnar is not wrestling at that right but he might

[28:30]be because he lives in alexander he might he might be at this one he might show up but this isn't like he's got to show up but he has to show it's target like if it's at the target center he's got to show up but it's not a pay-per-view right like so like yeah in your mind you're thinking like you're like oh roman reigns is going to wrestle brock lesnar and i'm like i got to tell my nephew like that's not going to happen because you're going to be disappointed otherwise right matt what do you think well i think i good point but i think he definitely shows up and he might what is someone summer slam that's got to be coming up summer slam is

[29:00]the night before matt so this is like the post summer slam where like storylines always change right yeah so i was going to say he might show up and just be in street clothes right and he's not gonna he's not gonna wrestle but he'll be there he'll be there leading up to some something right but i don't know i would make a sign that says brock eats corn sideways just in case you know you really want to get on tv that's how you do it you know rob and here that i have been to a pro wrestling show together in yeah 1999 i believe yeah

[29:32]it was summer slam at the target center the main event was stone cold steve austin versus triple h versus mankind in a triple threat with the guest referee the governor jesse the body ventura was the referee at the pay-per-view we went to yeah that's right i did vote for him i had to dive down and string a hook through something underwater and come back up and i came up and i go i've been living down on the bar because i felt like

[30:01]an underwater demolitions expert uh now i used to underwater so what so russell what day are we celebrating uh good uncle day uh that'll be next monday i believe i don't it's about the seventh july 31st it's the week after oh my god it's my anniversaries i can celebrate both yes my second achievement is i was gonna say 69 for good uncle day yeah i'm gonna do it i've lived with i've lived with the new landlord for about a month now and i haven't been evicted despite an xfinity meltdown oh yeah

[30:31]that's pretty good near meltdowns with being an assembly man yeah um the lack of adequate air conditioning in the upper level and our most recent issue a divided approach about what she what we should contact a property manager over and despite all these discussions i have not been evicted yet achievement day one month yeah yeah that's pretty good is the the upper level where you sleep and do nighttime activities no aaron it doesn't have to be at night i'm just kidding that was a joke by the

[31:00]way i mean daytime's great but i mean yeah we'll do it yeah right aaron what was it are you the time machine 20 years ago get out of here and then my final achievement day no no no no no wait a minute wait a minute i gotta give you advice okay first of all are you sleeping upstairs in the hot yeah that's where the rooms are at no get get move the mattresses down to the base move it down to the room and move it to the recording studio russell yeah get down there you you gotta you gotta get her sleep and trust me i i know people like her you gotta get them enough sleep

[31:30]otherwise you're in big trouble how do you know people like her i just know i know a lot of people and the other thing russell i would say this if they want to contact the property manager let them what what do you care the the let them contact the property manager that's it i can tell you my wife takes care of every single call down where she's like and i'm like yep take care of it it's great and i'm like yeah they think i'm great because i'll come in i'll be like oh man can you believe she called you for that and but yet they're fixing like your crapper or whatever you know because like it's

[32:00]like there's so many c batteries in the toilet i don't know why they're fixing it what they think you're the good guy russell finally my last achievement day came two days ago actually i'm celebrating it this is kind of a big one um after seven years i'm actually finally testing negative for cotton eye joe oh i don't know if it's i'm gonna have to edit this together why this is gonna sound so good on the episode

[32:30]well wait a minute what is this the chieftains i think russell's gonna see them wrestling a tag team on monday night the cheap team i like this i would listen to this again now these guys do look

[33:00]like they've submitted to an std test though look at just looking at that all right guys far left definitely enough enough man what's what's been in your achievement day i i nothing i don't celebrate achievements at all like it's one of those things right where you're like well i'm gonna get a new job you just expect to get a new job right well i'm gonna go i don't know shoot 80 in golf or something and eventually you do and it's like okay well wait have you shot 80 in golf no no i was gonna say that's an accomplishment yeah yeah

[33:30]you've done stuff mad i've seen you run you've ran marathons in the last year you've ran half marathons in the last year right but it's like you go to yoga at five in the morning those are all achievements right yeah well you know what i'll as yeah as soon as i can bend over and touch my toes that'll be a good achievement we'll celebrate that one the day that i i'll come help you celebrate but it's the same thing it's like okay well you did that you did that i mean like you expect to get these things done right man if i don't know if you come over i'll help you with the toe touching thing but i'm gonna have to ask for my ball gig back

[34:00]afterwards all right well i'll wash it first i'll throw i'll put it through the rinse so nice man i feel like you're constantly accomplishing things i thought for sure you would have like a number of them tonight i was almost afraid to compete with you on them tonight well i don't know and again the caller right like i don't know i don't i don't know if he got it out of a book or you got it you know what what's a motivation for it was why he hates birthdays what his mom did to him when she was younger or something he hates birthdays or you know i think he's right

[34:31]like why do you hate birthdays what's wrong with birthdays i will say this i like celebrating a birthday but there's really i mean it's not much of an achievement no like you're just here you just say a lot especially like a 43rd birthday there's nothing more depressing going to somebody's house for a 43rd you're just like but but here's the thing right like and you've had it with your kids and all this stuff and you're it's like the one thing where everybody knows what your birthday is everybody kind of expects well we're going to go out to dinner on that day or we're going to have cake on sunday for the birthday or something like that right it's like a

[35:00]reason to get together with me i'd rather get together with people than you know to celebrate it's not it's not really celebrating the birthday it's just getting together and hanging out with family friends think if they were getting together to celebrate your vasectomy like that's fun right that's more fun than you turning 43 i mean think of the cake you know no white frosting that got me i think that's how it works how about you rob you've done a lot of you've done a lot of weightlifting do those

[35:30]count as accomplishments or what's your big accomplishment that's all i can think of the only thing i can think of is like winning national champs or whatever you coach you coach the the world champion uh karaoke team at your school that's so rude to say there's no physical accomplishments that is how about what i would say getting my surgery done my stripe in jujitsu right now that would be what i celebrate next year but i yeah i mean i don't know like maybe i mean you know it's really sad honestly would be like maybe when we hit 50 000 downloads coming up in the next couple weeks

[36:00]like that might be one of my big achievements of the year i mean like that's kind of crazy i mean that's a stadium that's a good size stadium you know what i gotta give you guys credit you guys always are trying new stuff i think the big accomplishment is not getting the stripe at jujitsu it's walking into the class for the first time in jujitsu that's the accomplishment like matt matt walking into yoga for the first time or the new classes whatever he's class he's taking i think it's trying something new for the first time and put yourself out there that's the achievement right it wouldn't it wouldn't be the first time first time i went where the train was

[36:30]five minutes late and i got so nervous i turned around and went home and i never told you guys that part of the story i would not celebrate only all of our listeners out there take a moment yeah celebrate your accomplishments yeah i do like listen the rest of this podcast i like the idea of or whatever i do like the idea of like getting into like a uh like a just achievement day i think it's fun let's do achievement days it'd be like rob like if you were if your roommate ran a half marathon it was a big achievement and then instead of taking them out

[37:01]for dinner afterwards you you built a new ikea piece of furniture right achievement day you build it so it looks like one of those triangles you can fuck on i don't think i put this together right wait are the triangles you can't fuck on well no the wedge you know what i'm talking about the bed wedge russ was okay aaron doesn't know wow aaron your hips must be so flexible all right rolling going uh aaron how's it going with you oh hey uh i mean possibly my second

[37:30]unfunny segment i gotta get serious for a moment brian from woodbury was in town last night by a town i mean san francisco wow wow and now aaron would you say aaron what percent of you guys getting together is this podcast uh 70 75 i i'm no i mean he's like he he i didn't do this podcast if you didn't do this podcast and he didn't listen would he have called you and come to hang out with

[38:01]you if he was in oak town i'd like to think that he that he would have i don't know though because because we i do think that our other text chain is more active because a lot of these guys listen to the podcast so i but but i like to think that he would have contacted me anyway i bet if it weren't for the covid 19 pandemic because i don't know because our text chain really started up big during covid right it's true i bet if it weren't for that i don't know if he i don't know if he gives you a ring on this one well i didn't i didn't even know so today's thursday i didn't know until monday that he and the

[38:30]family were heading this direction and and he mentioned on the big text chain that he was coming this way and uh and so i said brian what do you what's up and so then we we started up fired up a little side text and he said would you like to join us at the ace at the giants game it happened to be a's at giants oh nice i said i would love to so uh number one first and foremost i any time people come to california and take time out of their family vacation to include me or to stop by to see me or like

[39:00]let me know i'm so grateful and appreciative so you know it's it's incredible to watch to be friends with you all as we continue to get older and to see our friends get older and meet their families and all of that time so number one hundred percent grateful for that it really is cool though to like have a group of friends as a family that they brought their kid and they didn't punch you in the stomach and i think that's great yeah their kids did not beat the shit out of you none of brian's none of brian's kids beat me up so that was nice i appreciated that and then in an amazing confluence of events

[39:31]brian on tuesday said do you want to go to the giants game with us i said absolutely so we hooked up hooked that up and and uh i was planning to meet them at oracle park and so i texted my brother because we had been talking about the u.s women's world cup game and um i said well it turns out i'm not gonna watch because i'm actually going to oracle park and so he was like hey that's cool so i was texting with my brother on wednesday thinking that he was in iowa as he often is because that's where he lives and then he called me at 4 45 on wednesday night and said hey i happen to get stuck in san

[40:00]jose so do you mind if i come to the giants game to you like you call it san jose how'd you say san jose san jose people probably people probably say it again i didn't want to bring it up here what's the city called you calling it california i thought it was california california california san jose san jose so he got stuck in san jose i guess it's from san jose san jose san jose man you guys are always listening for how i say stuff i gotta be careful how i say guys don't

[40:31]pick on aaron anymore go ahead aaron i've never heard the bass at the beginning of the song so you call your brother calls you he's stuck in san jose and then what happens uh aaron is so distracted by music the dion is so nice i mean you know she's she's part of the whitney houston family tree like for one run up so i gotta listen uh so my brother called me at 4 45 and he was like hey i got stuck in san jose i might come up to the giants game too sure do it so i

[41:00]end up at the giants game last night with my brother and brian from woodbury and brian from woodbury's family like what a more what could be a more marvelous turn of events to have all these people i love in one place at a place that's beautiful it was so fucking cold like it's outrageous cold there at night but we survived we survived we survived we survived and it was a beautiful rush and i are so hot we're so hot aaron and if you think i'm not gonna tell you what we ate you're wrong because i'm gonna tell you because i brian can eat i think

[41:30]brian doesn't eat for like three days leaving up to these things just to eat a shit ton did he get raise your hand if you think brian got nachos at the ballpark raise your hand if you got nachos i will say yes as well aaron did he that's part of it no this was actually this was the best moment for me the best moment for me was brian and i were sitting in the row with his kids and his wife so his wife and his kids get up to go get some food and like we were chatting about the game so we were sitting talking for a while longer and then yeah i was like yeah i'll probably go get some food after this half thing he's

[42:00]like yeah let's do it but his kids come back his wife was still up financing food his kids come back both kids with nachos i was like this nice like that to me like both of his kids eating nachos at the game just perfect and they each had their own each had their own nacho style like the daughter had the nice scoop of guac and i couldn't i don't think she had any steak on there maybe some chicken and then the son just had like steak and beans on the nachos it was like perfect like the two of them their own nacho style okay aaron be quiet for a second

[42:30]apple's not too far from the tree did you think at any point during the nacho story he was going to use the word steak steak that's crazy right it is it is doesn't play around san francisco san jose it is san francisco i'm in san francisco yeah san francisco i'm in san francisco i'm in san francisco yeah san francisco san francisco i don't know so so that the the two kids coming back with nachos to me was like that that was all so funny like that was the purpose let's be let's be clear for the people we keep forgetting that it's not just our friends listening

[43:00]to this brian and i didn't realize this he has eaten nachos every night is that true i think i think i knew him at like the age of 20 every day explain to me what that means that he would eat nachos every night what does that mean when when we were in college and matt you could jump in my memory was in college at least every night he had like frozen meat or he had like meat in the fridge and every night he would go over to the microwave steak put some chips on a plate put a bunch of cheese on it i believe it was shredded at

[43:30]the time matt you might might have more info and then put meat on it microwave that up and he would eat it while we watch blind date literally every night per senior year and i think he's continued to do it i think the only thing he does different now my understanding and this i mean this is some sick shit he makes a lot of money and he makes like a single chocolate chip cookie in the oven on a nightly basis are you serious yes so he he this is the first time like this was foreign to me but now we do it all the time for the cabin but his mom or dad or somebody

[44:01]would send like you take like those gallon zip lock bags right yeah so they would make like four pounds of ground beef taco meat freeze it send it to college right and so then you just take a little bit off and it was like what a great idea so you have notches every night and yes he makes he makes cookie dough saves the cookie dough and just makes one maybe two but most the time it's one cookie i think it's one or two but it's a fresh every night it's the greatest thing why not have a nice fresh cookie and i gotta say he also

[44:32]did have in college at least he always had homemade garden salsa too right like salsa from home in a jar that somebody made over the summer what listen you guys know i love like you there's great hold out hold out there's there's great stories too about him for i don't know if it was years but like for lunch all he would do he would take a can of uh pineapple like the tidbits and he would just have like a dollar can of pineapple that was his lunch that's all he had that's what he had i don't know if you

[45:02]remember this the greatest brian from woodbury story ever his senior year he made a bet with the guys in our pod like the group of like 10 of us oh i love that he could that he could stay in his bunk bed for three straight days without getting up yeah so so he was allowed three items in the bed he was allowed his book bag with books so he could do homework he had a stick so he could turn the light on and off and then he had the remote control for the tv could he go potty could he get up

[45:31]he was allowed to go to the bathroom but he had to get right back in the bed afterwards okay wow i think he made it like a day and a half and then he flipped out and see here's the thing that's that's an accomplishment but brian woodbury he has he he is he's zero achievement guy i think that guy he could care less about any achievement he's ever had he's probably got more achievements than everybody on that on that text chain i am a stripe yeah you know but yeah so no i think you

[46:00]know i don't know we got a we got a weird group i do have to ask like when you're at the game are you like you said you were talking like are you talking like man can you believe brent rookers got 20 home runs this year like are you really talking baseball with each other or what are you guys talking about the podcast yeah um well the thing is he so i think he's going to call in because he had some stories he wanted to tell on to the podcast and he did not reveal those to me um i don't know like call in right now we talked to yeah we talked brent rooker for sure um it's you know baseball games so

[46:31]that's my other that's my other beef is that um these games man like they go fast the game started at 6 45. it's a pitch clock that's your beast jesus yeah man like because i'm in the minority i'm there with my friend i haven't seen for 20 years years i haven't seen his wife since their wedding i saw brian once in las vegas and all of a sudden it's like oh it's the last out and like we walked out to the outfield one time to get food we kind of went our separate ways for a minute because i wanted to get fish tacos but then i switched to a chimichanga

[47:01]and then i had to wait in line for an irish coffee and then he wanted a bacon-wrapped hot dog so he walked all the round looking for a bacon-wrapped hot dog chimichanga and a coffee bro yes so good irish coffee you need to look at it out there you're going to get gout and diarrhea at the same time you're really going to make it no he has got it don't worry he's got gouts there yeah not what you got just got to deal with inflammations i was in atlanta i don't know it was one week or two ago all right for work and

[47:30]i go to work and it's like a work it's a work event right so like i go i got to go see people we went out the night before i had like the first shot i've ever had in like five years i just hate shots two other shots don't like but had a shot because i didn't have anywhere to dump it because they were like staring at me my you know my my move now is just everybody's taking a shot dump it on the floor pretend you take it oh no man yeah hate shots hate shots that's so sad man so pretty just not feeling it from the night before and this guy's like hey you

[48:01]want to go to the the braves game and i'm like you know yeah i haven't been to the new brave stadium yet it's awesome and i love doing that baseball 215 to 230 uh you know 720 game i'll be home by 10 it'll be great oh yeah you know so everybody does i figured this out everybody's a chop with the right hand so i was doing it with my left hand is this how you do it it's the stranger they were like that's offensive the way you're doing the job right exactly that's what i was i was hoping somebody was doing it wrong

[48:33]so i go to the game and i'm like okay 720 game we get there we'll get our seats it's beautiful park they're playing the diamondbacks were i think okay i'm like all right we'll get out of here i'll be home by 10. well they decided the braves decided to score 13 runs in oh okay they lost to the diamondbacks who scored 16. yeah first time i get to the game the first game three years they scored 29 runs it's the most runs scored

[49:00]in the major leagues this year and of course i'm the one who's still slightly hung over and it's 100 degrees there and i just want to go to bed and as a college baseball guy you can't just leave you can't no you know i can leave but you know what the guy who's not a college baseball guy the guy who's a die-hard uh braves fan who took me to the game bought the tickets buying all the stuff he is not leaving and i even tried hey you know if you gotta get home to the kids yeah you know i'm fine oh no i don't leave and i'm like fuck you're like i'm sorry so i'm sorry i wore this craig council jersey i didn't realize

[49:31]29 yeah 29 runs and like three and a half hours in the new baseball that's supposed to be 215 to 230. so i mean i would take it last night i'm out there like the game starts at 6 45 we barely got there for what we missed the first pitch because it's hard to get to the game it's by 6 45 in the city and then all of a sudden it's like it's like 9 25 and you look up and you're like this is like this is it everyone's standing up there's two strikes two hours but this is it because then you know brian and his family go off into the night my brother and me go for a nightcap and

[50:01]then like that's it that's the end of my magic hey i could spend i could spend this time with a good friend of mine for another hour or i could walk around the ballpark for an hour looking for a chimichanga and an espresso or whatever you got irish coffee we walked out together and brian was like i got to figure out what to do so you do your thing so then the sad story maybe he'll call and tell this story is that he really wanted a bacon wrapped hot dog he walked all the way around the park looking for one and they were all the lines were too long finally one guy was like come back in 10 minutes i'll have one for you

[50:30]he went back and the guy was like no sorry i'm out so he had just a regular just a regular brat like he didn't get get to have the russell the bacon wrapped hot dog russell it's times like this where i realize that you and i are the only normal people on this podcast like really man it's like oh it's too long it's too many runs it was too good aaron's like it's too short i was all the time looking for food hey rob we know it was just right so that was it shout out shout out to to brian and his family for making a real special night shout out to my brother for telling me he was in california which i'm adding all this out

[51:01]i'm adding all this out i'm not letting you do shout outs we're not and it was wonderful and uh how's it rolling going with matt is what i'm curious about uh good drove up to north dakota again uh we'll be here for about 10 days so uh kids haven't learned have you uh have you made a sting yet rob you know it's a little too real my kids haven't learned anything yet but have you made a statement let's do this one now let's do what are we going to do this oh yeah how about how about this your kids are learning stuff in north dakota manly well they will yeah it's time to find

[51:32]out what fast kids are learning in north dakota oh yeah i prefer school long cut oh wow that's interesting i will say if you listen to that clip i do say north dakota and i was too lazy to go back and fix it so what is that what is what is the tobacco scene in in your in no doubt well here let me you know what cigarettes is it chew is it cigars oh yeah even the chick there's a lot there's some women that's true

[52:02]are learning in north dakota oh yeah american spirits are good for you they're natural wow that's interesting but man you were saying you do not have so now i want to remind you last week you did say oh could you make a sting for uh you know my kids learning stuff in north dakota and i said sure you know and i was happy i was i mean i could make it's time to find out what no problem oh yeah my favorite flavor of jello is

[52:32]shot that's crazy but you don't but that's not what you have tonight so that's fine that's actually fine not a big deal no yeah so next time hopefully we've got a couple things yeah hopefully they don't learn to chew man that'd be the worst i don't know i gotta admit if i came home and my kid was chewing i'd be like what i didn't even think i had to say something about this they didn't even cross my body great having a beer great yeah oh my god that would be the one where

[53:01]i'd be like well i failed yeah yeah uh the only thing i got we were driving up here today and the kids there are they're at the point in their life where they just pester their mom right so it's everything mom can have some water mom you do this mom i needed it mom he did this and finally sarah turns he goes why is it always me you at why why can you never ask your dad's anything and eddie says because you're smarter oh and it was like the great it was like it was the greatest response ever

[53:32]because sarah she just kind of said well that's a good answer you know here's a better way to do that yeah so he's he's learning how to he's learning how to work the system so what have your have your guys kids and i should have asked you guys this before but have your kids uh have they got any nice deep dives in on you guys that you can remember by chance at all my text my kids are the only ones in my life who point out and i hate this it's almost like when i started making fun of aaron for this it's come back to bite

[54:00]me my accelerated hair loss that is going on right now i have got a bald spot that i have noticed when i deadlift and now and the only people who say anything a bout it to me are my kids to the point where the other day my kid was in the pool with me and she said oh my god you have a six head like i mean she goes and on the side she goes oh you look like the clown from it and i was like i mean your kids are saying what your co-hosts are thinking right well wow but i was always like no i don't have a hairline going back this is just how my hair has always been and now i don't have a forehead you don't have a

[54:30]five that you have a six it looks like a bowling ball i mean it really does like it's my but the problem is if i start shaving my head guys i you there's no way i'm a good looking shaved head guy right there's no way i think so yeah you could do it you keep the beard yeah you're good no i think i'm going to be more of a marshmallow than like a steve austin i just cannot well just you can try it once maybe not right now well no you've got plenty of time before school starts give it a shot not right okay okay well babe mine was like mine is the one like wallace will jump in her bed in the morning and then bust my balls

[55:00]because i have morning breath and be like like he'll come in and like want to snuggle with mom and be like dad your breath smells or like dad you like you smell bad like i didn't invite you to come in here dude like don't come in here and tell me how bad i smell this is my space this is my space who came into my space right like you jumped in here and now you tell me i smell bad like yeah i do i got it you got bad breath and the wi-fi is slow and you're like god you know just how to get me i i did have a niece the other ex was earlier tonight that busted me a little bit and made a comment that my hair color was not natural

[55:31]this is natural it's as natural as they come yeah there's no there's no just for men going on here russ is buying hair dye in the aisle and it's he's like ah yeah super gray my color he brings it up front the person's like why would you buy this sir you want the platinum one no i purposely got the super gray i like the silver fox it's a super gray actually this is the opposite of what most people want i don't know if most people caught that bit

[56:02]so that's good i think my kids are they're pretty bright they're figuring out you know that's the right thing so rob roland going how's it going with you uh i'm gonna say this number one i got two things okay and i'm gonna be i'm deadly serious about the second thing number one okay i had russ and his landlord stopped by the other day oh at the cabin they were on their way up and she she's the landlord russell okay i see how this is going now all right i get it

[56:30]all right so they stopped by for how long the rent is my bone i wish do it the first of the month i oh please i'm on an annuity plan hmm rob in the future are you gonna keep that in we'll see it's an interesting question because it was a good joke russell is going to try to cut it out we'll see what happens uh listen if you heard that joke folks it was a good state in anyway let's russell came to the cabin we had a great

[57:00]time actually uh you know had famous mr pizza from rochester minnesota the best frozen pizza that has ever been or will ever be we had that russell did not comment on how i cut it because i did cut it party style you cut yeah i did do a party cut it's a party cutter you know the the toughest thing with the sexy motherfucker rob was nice enough to to make a pizza but there was kind of like an uncertainty going on with the pizza because rob had like 15 to 20 family members yeah it was just pizza for the whole family

[57:30]yeah he had like 20 people playing bingo at the time and they were all having fun we came in in the middle of a bingo game like normal stuff rule number one of showing up to like someone's house you don't want to go up and like interrupt while they're playing they're doing something fun because everyone else who's there is like what the fuck are these people doing here we're trying to play bingo and we didn't interrupt the game the game kept going just fine but and russell what was the prize for bingo lottery tickets are great lottery tickets nice you can win twice gambling on top of gambling

[58:00]rob did make a pizza back and rob was going out of his way to tell his two daughters you have to let guests go first oh my god and but but there was like 15 20 people there so there's this pizza and you're like wait are there 20 people picking from this pizza are there four people are there six people there was kind of an uncertainty so what aaron matt what would you have done if there's a pizza there and there's 15 20 people what do you do if i am the new guy i just i i i'm the

[58:30]last one in life i picked the two smallest quarter ones it was great pizza but i did not go i did not because what do you do what do you do i start what do you do i start with two slices and then i stick kind of close to the pizza and i already got the weird party cut not slices squares yeah so i take two pieces okay and then i i stick close and i make sure that all of the vulnerable protected classes get their slice oh and then once that's happened i'm going back for more like as soon as like as soon as the children

[59:00]and then you make sure all the can't fend for the grown adult white males get their oh you know what man that's a good point in actually i've been wanting to talk about this okay because a lot of people lately haven't noticed i'm just asking the question yeah i i i start i do like russell i start with two small small pieces but i i stick close because i'm you know like i'm going to give people a chance but once they've had a chance i'm going back but here's the thing as a host right i want russell to have mr pizza it's a rochester proud frozen pizza i want him to have as

[59:30]much and guess what we're going to make more pizzas everyone else they're going to be fine honestly i've been hanging with these guys for a couple weeks now i couldn't care less if they get fed not my problem i'm starting with my own kids like my own kids were like i didn't get any pizza i'd be like boohoo i do have to ask rob rob went out of his way specifically with one of his kids to say you have to wait for after the guests it wasn't both kids there was one kid that he went out of his way numerous times to say and the other his other daughter kind of said yeah she is known for like going in and

[60:01]scooping well she'll take everything yeah if dad doesn't say something rob is that how your your daughter's operating as one kind of go in and she'll take everything if she can or not russell you know how when you buy windex there's a warning like don't squirt this in your eyes and you're like what could this possibly be warning for like who and then you find out all the warnings are actually lawsuits that they've encountered like i assume that was day one of law school you're like very interesting um that is exactly what was going on because this exact thing has happened multiple times in the last couple weeks where it's like these kids being in

[60:30]groups are like they act like they've never eaten before they act like it's like i don't know what yeah mad man yeah i got one of those too or you're going to run out of food and there's just not going to be enough it's like just chill out right it'll be fine see and do you know to rosie's point you take a couple right but i usually like to hang back because one if you don't get any that's fine but if you're the if you are the last one you are fair game to grab as much or as little or whatever you want whatever is left right that's what i try to tell my kids like look there's plenty of food hang back

[61:01]don't be the first one and just you'll have plenty and then you can just have whatever you want everybody else has already gone gone through and just have at it you know i also like some people get very kind of particular about this like if i go to like rob's place and i don't have anything to eat i'll be fine like i've got plenty of stored up cells here in my body to survive the afternoon if if i like but some people if they don't have something to eat they're going to like freak out right they're going to be they're going to get pissed they're going to get anxious

[61:30]like who do i know this like that i can tell you i definitely wouldn't uh make a contract to spend the rest of my life with a person like that for sure who multiple times cries because they're so hungry but rob you also it wasn't just a pizza there was a lot of things going on there was bingo going on rob also allowed me to play his vr set oh my god i'd forgotten about this oh he did did he slip in the porn it was a little sweatier it was a little sweatier

[62:00]than i was hoping for when i put it on don't click on that that says star wars games don't click on that it was a lot of fun but it was so good guys rob actually had me play a game and i think i don't know if this was mean or what i don't know how to take it so good guys it is essentially a game where you step into an elevator you go up the elevator and then there's a plank like out of the sears tower essentially like and i'm terrified of heights it was so good the other thing the vr was a lot of fun the other thing rob did maybe i'm jumping on your thing rob took

[62:30]us out on a pontoon bride which was very nice of him to do did you start another podcast and i'm going to ask you guys a question and i was like huh what swimsuit oh we're going to go swimming what swimsuit should i wear with russell and his landlord to be respectful of it and so of course you know i had to break out the bear paw speedo that i bought in the store the bear paw to which my mom to which my mom commented this year where's your penis when you wear it because it does get very smooth in the front like i don't get what happens but it's got like it's like where's your penis here's the thing

[63:01]it's like a support bra but backwards instead of lifting and showing it like squishes and hides which i don't get it's the only part of my body that looks smooth and flat so it like really sticks out it's like a socket it makes no sense i don't know what's happening not a great the guy at the gay store really let me down when he sold me anything that causes your mom to ask about your penis after age five or six it's like you need to rethink what you're wearing but russell did get to see me do a sweet greg luganus off the boat oh wait which

[63:31]the the gold medal you hit your head on the side of the boat that's actually a perfect dive okay i looked at the positive stuff about greg luganus not actually quite a bit of negative things not when i think about it can i say you're this russell great to have you okay do you know the one thing my family said about you what's that when you left it blew my fucking mind russell is so tall they all i had four people come to me like

[64:00]you are tall you are and i said you know no no no no no no i'm taller than russell and no you're not you are 100 percent no i'm trying to decide you rob i was like russell is taller than me this yeah i have never in my life thought russell is taller than me i have always considered russell shorter than me for people to tell me that russell is taller than me it warped it's it's like coming it's literally like coming out of the matrix it's crazy it's like being on the plank with the vr with russell it blew my mind and rob i've def like rob i mean you might not even be like five nine how

[64:31]tall are you well i was listed when i played football at six foot okay that was with cleats on russell how tall is your brother compared to you my brother is like six two he is taller than i am your brother is okay but are you over six foot are you i'm six i'm on the on the button on the button okay guys have you ever assumed that russell's the trevor winter of our friend group has that ever come into your head that's true i'll use those who's trevor who's

[65:01]trevor get out of here you iowa face out yeah oh i'm sorry this is um who's somebody aaron marcus pfizer thank you marcus pfizer was the number two overall pick come on though uh trevor winter played for the timberwolves you dumb he he got his cup of coffee in the league not just because of chat he had his he had his chimichanga and a cup of coffee in the league right first of all great to see russ okay now it gets to the second part which i'm serious about i'm going to arizona

[65:32]uh from august 5th to the 9th or something 8th russell can you watch my dog for me no way i'm going to bring my dog down to your place no russ excuse me this is not a joke i am in need i am indeed excuse me i am in need of somebody to watch my dog no the answer is no the answer is no no listen i just want to tell you i respect that okay i think it's great to have boundaries okay and on the other hand it's that you wouldn't help a friend

[66:01]who's in need no no no take him take him to a you can take him to bats or you can take him to a uh a pound or whatever no way your dog has like your dog has like medical issues i'm not being responsible when he throws his back is the answer and i brought all of his pills if he throws his back out okay this is one of my qualities this is my achievement day i don't let people bully

[66:30]me into doing i don't want to do i cannot watch that russell i'm a friend in need hey robin i'll give you a heads up i'm probably the more likely of the two tenants in my house to say yes to something like that and you just got a big i don't know i might have to contact somebody else in the apartment see what happens so that works so good when i when i show up here's what i promise you guys when i show up and drop that dog off at russell's and he probably doesn't itch all the time

[67:00]now and doesn't cough as much i'm going to take a picture of russell's face when he comes out and sees that he is now kind of you you we're kind of related russell you take care of that dog we're kind of like you underestimate what would probably happen with that dog i legit would i would i'd put i'd put him spots where you've got to be out of there in seven days or you don't come back first of all that dog's tall as hell okay it would do just fine so okay so can i just have everybody text into the back line okay is this or is this fine that russell

[67:30]has said he will not take care of my dog when he knows i'm desperate so is this it's time oh no wrong theme song is this fucked or is it fine hashtag fucked or hashtag fine man rolling going how no who's it who's left is anybody left russell rolling going russell how is it going with you i can um i've got two things we've got uh the dvd tournament but i'm going to start with personal we're going to go to uh the russell's dating advice corner oh he's got a nice corner okay

[68:00]russell are you okay it's like russell's cohabitation corner the cohabitation corner i think we move beyond dating you need some landlord unless this unless this is about someone else in this case you know what you can jack off wherever you want russell it doesn't matter they don't control you uh hey russell if you need if you actually have broken up with this person and you need to move in with somebody go yourself you wouldn't even watch my dog rob does this your answer to that change if the couch is made of fabric versus

[68:31]leather or not no actually it's fine the fabric's fine uh you just got a warm water here's the thing russell why don't you stay in a pound okay if you're getting kicked out why don't you go sit in a pound somewhere russell we will give you advice oh the advice i was going to ask is i'm curious how i don't know if we've ever talked about this before uh one of the big uh uh push and pulls in the house that i'm living in now relates to the thermostat i was curious how do you guys handle the

[69:01]thermostat in your house like do you have agreed upon temperature does it go up and down is it on a timer that is constantly set matt do you just go change what you want how does it work uh sarah sets the sarah sets it yeah and what do you do that's how we figure it out i i love i love the days that sarah is like out with friends or something like that and it's like a nice night like i open those windows up yeah and everything's coming i'll sleep in like 52 degree weather if i can things

[69:30]like that with with the air blowing in you know and by the time sarah the windows are shut you know it's just just how it is russell yeah oh russell let me tell you what i do oh i definitely take control and let her do whatever she wants okay what are you done aaron who controls the temperature of your place i think it's me actually you say i think it's me it's not you i think it's me actually who's in charge i mean it's not as oh my god i mean our i think our thing

[70:02]is just set to like drop down to 67 at night and then it's like 70 during the day or whatever like all right you know it's not as an extreme shift for us but yeah i mean i think we started it was so boring kind of are you asking i mean you're talking i did not ask i did not ask the temperatures 67 to 70 that's the most too boring temperatures i think i created the temperature program but i do we do check in about whether it's comfortable for both of us insane flex from aaron

[70:32]so man like matt's talking about like when it gets cool out he can just open the windows like i i get that but like what when it's really hot matt like is your temperature sit at like 76 inside and you're just good with it 76. 71 72. 76. i'd have i'd have it down to 69 if i could but yeah 71 70. hey guys check out this number where i where i've i've been liking it recently yeah the number is 64.

[71:00]oh whoa whoa you saved your acs oh my god ice man comment you're the reason we don't have an ozone jesus russell 64 okay so okay so this is actually going to be a pretty good lesson russell and what it's going to be like to be living with somebody who you also would like to like you um you are going to have to compromise 64 is way too low that's pretty cold do you notice how we all laughed at that number when you said that and also to russell's roommate 76 way too high i would have had 100 guesses

[71:31]i would not have guessed your temperatures at 76. so let's see 64 to 76 matt the average is eight 71 no the average that's what it's gonna say i say that because that's what it's going to settle in and it's going to be 71. but what happens guys if you if the building you live in doesn't really cool down in the upstairs the only way to get it cool is you got to freeze out the bottom levels what what do you guys think do you freeze it out do you put the fan on then so that it runs through the house oh yeah continuously oh my god

[72:01]what is it pulls it up there i don't know this feels like you need some better passive cooling or you might need some different kind of stuff which one's open which one's closed russell yeah you got to get some better air you got to start plugging up some of them with some cardboard and stuff so that you're messing with how that everything's flowing you're sleeping with too many clothes on russell that's the problem here i mean if it's 64 and you're trying to get hurt asleep with no clothes on i don't know good luck no good luck forget that at least i'm not watching a dog this

[72:30]weekend first of all it's next weekend and i'm actually serious okay so now we got to get to the dvd tournament rob um you you've done a great job getting matt's uh getting matt's parody songs done yeah so i figured you could give us an update on how the listener vote went on the dvd tournament from last week you were gonna set that up on instagram you know what you son of a i did i did run it and you just reminded me and i totally

[73:00]forgot until you said that and i because i did it while i was editing it and i was like i should just do this now and then i'll rerun it which of course i didn't do but let's look at the results shall we i was i thought for sure he wouldn't have done that oh russell you don't piece of of course i did it let's see what's going on okay now first of all i have to find the back to it better and then i have to see what to do here okay so i i think i might not have posted it like i thought i did maybe that

[73:31]was it well maybe what we could do is go to the next the regional the the the next four matchups i think that's good and i will figure this out russell we will i will set it up this time for sure all right we're doing action tonight the the we're down to eight in the action regional as you guys know the 16 seeds advanced in all regionals the first matchup is the 16 seed young guns versus the eighth seed it's a combo pack

[74:00]karate kid one karate kid two and karate kid three oh what's your vote we are currently watched karate kid one last night and we were about 30 minutes into karate kid two after getting up to the cabin tonight definitely karate the karate kid three pack is my vote but you got to admit the end of karate kid one is right man where he where's just the show goes to mr miyagi and he just goes and then it ends and you're like what yeah that's it it does it just cuts off it's crazy but but it also too doesn't it's a great

[74:30]movie trick doesn't two start with the end of one yes it's like a recap of one yeah it goes through all of his wax on wax off and sand and and then you know when he was on the boat and all the crane kick and then to the final yeah i mean it's like a it's like a five minute montage of a first movie just to catch you up in case you missed it do your kids like karate kid yeah yeah and then they're both in karate so all of a sudden now they want to practice all their karate moves all of a sudden they you know it's been four years and

[75:00]they've never wanted to practice but now they watch karate kid now they want to do it okay russell update i've got an update for you i did make it and people did vote they did vote yes okay so what do we want to do should we do that i saw it for sure like i definitely saw that it was out there did you vote aaron no well the problem is i didn't i'm gonna vote on the show i can't vote okay because i'm voting i got a lot of stuff about stolen elections lately i'll actually talk to you guys about this later but it's really interesting what what should we keep going through let's do it after i don't know why i

[75:30]interrupted you i'm so sorry all right so um matt voted karate kid aaron rob you gotta vote karate kids karate kids young guns karate kid of course karate kids three no threes up yeah the next matchup is the four five i think this is a pretty good in this is a pretty intriguing matchup the four seed fight club versus the five seed gladiator wow jeez that's a tough one impossible i gotta say i gotta say gladiator i know people think gladiator is not as good as

[76:01]everybody thinks but i will have my vengeance i gotta go gladiator too i'll go gladiator as well you know fight comes sweet i'm with gladiator too man it's out it's out next round though as soon as it hits something there has to be some said for people our age gladiator was like in the peak of it probably came out when we were about like 20 right oh yeah for sure if you're like a 43 year old male gladiator was in the prime of your loving that type of movie right the fight club was too like fight club was like oh this is blowing my mind it's

[76:31]like not real it's in his head but still like i gotta go with a spoiler i know there's a week in a row i know okay and i was just about to watch usual suspects so don't say anything about that movie don't worry i'm not watching that one too much yelling all right the next matchup the next matchup is some older movies those ones were right in our prime this is the number three seed enter the dragon versus the number six seed the good the bad and the ugly jesus old man i think was it just was it

[77:02]just bruce lee's birthday or the anniversary of his death i can't remember i think it was one of those people you don't celebrate people we don't celebrate this achievement podcast his achievement i would say i gotta say good bad the ugly too slow give me bruce lee i'll take bruce lee i don't really know either i'll go with i'll go with rob there thank you too like kung fu is exciting all right the next matchup is the ten two we have a combo pack kill bill one

[77:31]and two versus star wars the empire strikes back oh no i'm gonna take kill bill i those are the ones i would re-watch but uh i think you gotta say kill bill because if you just have one star wars kind of psycho right if you just have one like that's a weird kill that's the best one though empire strikes back is the best one by far yeah but i like number one with the pod racing oh my god no don't okay i would abstain from voting on this one

[78:01]but i'll just go with the emperor strikes back so rob you said kill bill or no yeah i said kill them wow so kill bill according to you guys thank god we have a listener vote we'll see if the listeners can get star wars and it'll be set up because i set the last one i found out earlier what all right well that's the dvd tournament for the week rob rolling going how's it going with you hey did you hear did you hear how that music dropped perfectly i know it's perfectly planned out russell good work nice russell wait that's in the biz we call that hitting the post nice job

[78:31]nice work rolling is going yeah actually rob rob i believe they call them that stroke in the post oh oh yeah whipping post uh now listen okay uh yeah aaron actually my rolling going was russell telling a bunch of stories about my cabin and that's fine okay and the other part was him again saying that my dog should die in the street you're the one who chose to transfer the dog from new york to minnesota i can't bring the dog to arizona he's gonna get

[79:00]cooked like a little piece of sausage out there it is too hot by the way what the hell are you doing in arizona anyway yeah my kid think about how crazy i mean you know you know it's just a parent you're like i don't want my kids to end up like me right but yet oh my kid is going to nationals powerlifting nationals and she's competing there and it might surprise you guys i can almost guarantee she's going to be a national champ guess why

[79:32]i'll give you one she's the only one in her weight class she's the only one in her here i'm talking about my kids wait it's the only one in my kids class and also i checked my nationals there's one other guy in my weight class so she and i national champions back to back baby love it yeah so that's why i'm going to arizona okay i'm going to arizona that's a great achievement yeah yeah yeah a dad of a national champ that's one thing my wife could never do all right so let's get into this album oh this is a music podcast yeah 90

[80:02]minutes in why not it's a good time can i just say this russell russell just to back up a little bit what about bob 55 over kingpin okay what about bob i had that one i had that one i don't know how that's i mean what about bob does advance oh well you know what it's kind of that you thought i wouldn't be prepared yet when i am prepared you're not prepared so reversal well let's keep going then okay next one uh dumb and dumber win so 57 this was a music podcast okay uncle block great

[80:30]outdoors combo pack wins 64 i think that's what we picked wayne's world 81 percent oh brother where art thou okay no big big brother i think i was four for four on that one i think so what about bob dumb and dumber uncle buck great outdoors wayne's world all advanced you know there you go thank you and it's happening wait you know what's crazy though that's like 64 is that like 10 responses how many responses i don't know that's a you're right because if it was like 10 people it would be like 20 russell i think we have a lot of fans out there who want to interact with us

[81:00]on social media and i've got a lot of views i actually want to tell them about so i'm going to start posting some stuff that they're actually going to learn from okay let's talk about amazing grace by aretha franklin this album is a live album recorded in watts uh los angeles in 72 with the southern california community choir uh this album won the grammy for best soul gospel uh she was actually nominated twice for two different songs on this album and one can you imagine going against aretha live for best gospel album best gospel

[81:30]song you'd be like okay well i'm that's goodbye i'm not gonna show up and basically this is really interesting because warner brothers rate records and stu and movies had merged right before this and they said you know what's a great idea we should make an album and a movie and sell both okay and a kind of synergy that he-man could only dream of uh and so they sent and and basically this this executive had lunch with sydney pollock who had directed uh out of africa and would go on to direct tootsie and he said yeah i can come in and direct this and people are like well

[82:01]directing like live music is really a skill so be careful he shows up and he doesn't bring one item okay now what would be one item that if you're recording something with a ton of sound and some would say actually the most important thing is the sound what's one thing beside the microphone that you would want to bring how about that clapboard that synchronizes it's literally the clap at the beginning of the show he didn't bring any so he recorded this whole aretha franklin concert two nights

[82:30]he couldn't sydney pollock could not make the film because he couldn't synchronize the sound in the video and he actually that's crazy he he and the thing was since 1970 they were going music documentary crazy in 70 alone you have woodstock give me shelter and elvis's that's the way it is and he uh if you watch this movie it's really if you watch the movie to see who's there when aretha's recording this album it's interesting because in the background you see members of the rolling stones and they were just on their way to record exile on main street which of

[83:00]course we talked about was influenced by american gospel music so there's no doubt this was right in the forefront of their mind when they're recording that uh the guy named alien ellie allen elliott actually mortgaged his house to buy the negatives to this movie synchronize the sound got it together in 2011 was going to release it at telluride at a film festival and aretha sued him to get him to not show it and they looked for all the contracts that they signed and they couldn't find they could find everybody's but one and that was aretha's uh and then and aretha said i like her first with her

[83:30]nine i aretha liked the movie she said she just wanted to i think she ended up wanting to get paid more she passed away in 2018 three months later with the blessing of her family the movie came out uh and so this is aretha franklin's number one how do you feel about that like if you if rob like if if there's someone this podcast and you were like i don't want let's let's say the radiohead episode that i don't ever want to come out right if i if i clearly tell my family i don't want to want this to ever come out and i

[84:00]kick the bucket and three months later they're like yeah put it out what do you think of that what is coming out i got to admit russell funny move by my family to just do the one thing where i was like please do not do this rob's got his finger over the button on that one like the day your obituary is published and things if it makes one person laugh russell i'll do it because i you're dead like i'm dead who cares what people think i couldn't care less let's just say it went to how many nieces and nephews do you have three four or three you have four each of them get two hundred fifty thousand dollars get college paid for for

[84:30]free if that thing gets released well she could have released it and made that choice earlier russell no you i'm you're saying about you you don't you don't want the radio head coming out you know and so maybe like maybe the price isn't right maybe they say fifty thousand at first and they say nope that's not good how about 250 yes you know she was probably the kids probably you know whatever they don't care just add it to the estate or whatever they just want to see their mom singing yeah you know back in the old bag give me the money but i don't know if it's fair to say and i'm not really all of the stuff that rob has read i don't know that it's

[85:01]fair to say that aretha was holding out for more money i think this is a big deal for her to go back to gospel after she was secular and her dad talks about it in the intro in the interlude later in the album this is a different aretha than we hear on other records okay and this was a very important thing to her to be singing in a church and so probably by 2011 she felt like the album had sold how many copies copies it was a moment that happened in

[85:31]time she didn't need that out there any further because this was a big deal and and she really didn't want to stand above what her faith was go ahead man and i said if you watch the movie like it's a completely different aretha franklin than what i remember you know like from her in like the 90s 2000 like this powerful singer who's just commands the stage like it she is essentially i don't know i mean she's up there singing but she's very meek and timid and i was kind of shocked yeah so it's it's a completely different

[86:02]aretha so i can see where maybe she thought this was something completely different and then which as she got older and kind of took more command of everything or just you know came out of i don't even know what the right coming out of the shells the right word whatever it is was more confident whatever it was you know maybe she just looked back on that and to your point this was very personal this is very deep and i you know like i want to control maybe she wanted to control the narrative of the movie as opposed to some guy who just mortgaged his house for it i don't know

[86:30]but the faith aspect of this and this the yeah the division between secular and gospel especially among black musicians cannot be overstated this was a big fucking deal for her to even to to be able to make a gospel record after she had gone pop this was a big deal and she took that very seriously ended up being her best-selling record so let's get into it we start with mary don't you weep i gotta say guys picking time cues this week hard

[87:00]is it i try to pick here where she really gets it the first time she comes in yeah because it's not intended to be an album where you can pick out highlights she was this was really a meditation and a celebration between her and god right not many guitars yeah and the players are are kind of you know tame toning things down too and i will say having the choir is awesome i mean like watching the choir it's unbelievable yeah i i tried to

[87:33]watch this movie again today ran out of time a little bit but when i put it on multiple people came around and sat down because they were like oh this is just interesting thing to watch i highly recommend people watch it now aaron has talked about prince's also posthumous album kind of uh uh you know a microphone which actually opened with the same song mary don't you oh yeah yeah yeah yeah this is fun i've heard this a bunch oh and this also he didn't want to see the

[88:00]light of day but his family released it they got rochester mr pizzas to buy you gotta sell those breakfasts somebody's gonna get russell you can't have you can't have the whole family one pizza well if somebody didn't take a two of the big pieces we could have had more uh precious lord take my hand this was martin luther king's favorite song the song at his funeral oh right yeah i think this is the only one

[88:32]i do think this this album is much more listenable than the movie is yeah it's the movie the album definitely picked out the highlights yeah there's a lot of interludes there's a lot of pastor reverend talk and things like that and man i know you said this before in the podcast it's not fun watching those interludes because you feel like a reetha is being almost disrespected with the way people are crowing for attention i remember us talking about that we watched it probably is it when did we watch that what was it

[89:01]uh what was the album we what was the first three album we did never loved a man the way i loved you yeah we we watched we all watched that yeah two years ago geez god we're old that's that that second track too because this is bernard pretty pretty on drums right so oh we don't get the we don't get any pretty shuffle on here right he is keeping it close to the end of the close to the chest like that second track that to me is as close as we get to bernard letting go because he also is keeping things down down because

[89:31]for them this was about worship it was about praise they weren't trying to take precedence over the message of the music they were delivering old landmark oh this is a killer for me as well russell i believe james brown does this in the blues brothers right or am i in trouble no it's fine sorry i will say this is what you think of when you think of gospel right and like yeah yep russell alluded to i was like why do i why does this hit a chord with me

[90:00]where i really want to get down to it and sure enough like russell said this is the blues brothers with james brown i gotta listen to this right here that the keys there is just amazing uh give yourself to jesus how do you guys look at this do you look at this like a greatest hits or a compilation or how do you look at live albums can you know we've talked about not thinking greatest hits should be on the list where does how does this rank

[90:30]in there listen this is a wreath of air and sing but it's it's a read this best-selling album i i just don't know does anybody think of this when they think of aretha i mean it's it's unbelievable and it's special i played this i'm gonna think of it from now on i play this more sundays than i don't play it um so for me it's uh and i like i don't know i'm probably not well whatever i don't go to church i grew up in the church

[91:01]but i play this a lot on sundays to me it's a church service it's a worship it's it's it's this one in love supreme to me and maybe some of pharaoh sanders stuff like karma and the creator has a master plan like to me this is worship music it's praise music it's meant to be enjoyed and not meant to be discussed in the greatest albums you know discussion so that's what it is for me aaron and i'm going to say at my house on sunday we play this don't eat me but but you sure like the

[91:33]bone i mean a person that works with me that ass aaron is this one in the morning and then play some al green in the afternoon or something that's the that's the perfect sunday to me finally i also gotta say i'm gonna tell this story because i'm gonna continue being i'm gonna continue being not funny this album makes me think so much of my grand fathers because uh eventually we're gonna get to what a friend we have in jesus i sang what a friend we have in jesus at my grandmother's funeral i did not sing it in the style of aretha or as

[92:01]well as aretha but i sang what a friend we have in jesus at my my paternal grandma's funeral and my paternal grandpa was there that was his selection and then god will take care of you um my maternal grandfather i can remember sitting next to him in church and him singing that one he could not carry a tune but he sang the hell out of it so for me this music is so personal so spiritual and so wonderful to listen to that's that's what it is for me but i don't think of it as an album i don't think the sound quality is good enough i don't think

[92:30]like even the sequencing is like they took it out of order from the actual concert i mean it's all you know but aaron i gotta say one of the things about this podcast one of this thing about go ahead russ rob did you get an invite to any of those events oh to my to go to church with my girl right sorry i know that's a joke but i couldn't help myself that joke was so good it's i should not have be followed by my joke that joke is a perfect closer i apologize that wasn't rude well no and i

[93:00]think but i think it's fun because i this podcast is a place where we can you know delve into like our lives and things we think about and music is so powerful and evokes those things and that's why i'm happy to say that this week cole's resort is sponsoring aaron's grandma corner oh it's it's it's time for one-on-one with aaron's grandma so thank you cole's for sponsoring that i wish i would have been able to fit in maybe somewhere else but i think that's gonna be fine aaron do you get to choose

[93:31]songs when you sing at a funeral or how does that work i've never heard of the songs no i don't know how to who chooses someone's got to choose yeah i mean aaron's like i mean aaron's like hey my uh hey we're in the church for this funeral can everybody open up to psalm yeah when when my when my grandma passed uh my grandpa who was still living at the time chose what a friend we have in jesus what an honor and uh yeah and then um

[94:00]other times like the couple times i like sang at funerals for like money it was like the you know uh you got paid got paid yeah oh my god disgusting like at a church they'll be like oh we need someone to come in and sing you get like 50 years now you did you go around with the plate as you were singing at the funeral aaron because you should not be doing that so then the family of the deceased chooses a song that means something to them no you know as a singer you don't come in and say like i had like to do this number i got a little number i wrote for this one maybe you guys want

[94:30]hey right do you guys like blues traveler i got this you can spot this one wrote a song about it like to hear it here it goes yeah that's a pretty cool honor though for you gonna get singing at uh at a funeral like that is pretty cool moment here yeah yeah i've had some good moments aaron's like do you guys like pitbull all right uh uh let's see so now that aaron's stories which sorry now that i took over the whole podcast no that's fine aaron let's get back to

[95:01]telling jokes you know what next week i'm going to talk about my grandmothers and how they passed away so it's going to be a great time this one is my brother's favorite so this whole thing is like it's really you know how i got over this one actually won a grammy for mahalia jackson in 76. not just recorded no yeah she she turned in and was like hey i like this i should do a podcast where i review

[95:30]this and everybody be like that's the dumbest idea ever nobody will vote on those instagram polls new jerusalem i'm so good next up what a friend we have in jesus listen to this note she hits jesus and this is the stuff that doesn't make it to recording on the stuff that was

[96:00]popular same with sam cook like when they're live doing gospel you hear them do different stuff it feels this is one of the things i was going to say for my final ranking but it feels kind of like stripped down it's just like here's the talent like this amazing singer this amazing sound we're not going to screw around with it with all this technology it just is what it is and it it's i don't see how you could turn this off i'm i'm not a religious person the like i'm not a huge gospel fan or anything but damn this is so good yeah

[96:31]this is really good uh next up now now you guys know though if i find a cover by one person i will always play it so here's ike and tina what a friend we have in jesus oh wow they have a whole record where they do gospel but it's like this it's crazy i'm telling you that's pretty fun should we just go live in the woods and buy tina turner records and just live listen to them yep oh my god so good uh

[97:03]amazing grace guys now this aaron is a she's singing this in church but what would we call this okay it can't be anything but a titular track it's a titular track aaron it's church come on uh this was written amazing grace was written by a guy named john newton okay and he didn't live by aaron or he would have invented something else but he was actually a big guy who was into slaves he was a slaver which is a

[97:31]weird twist but he was going across the atlantic and the captain said nobody has ever sworn in ways like you john newton you make up words i've never heard you're terrible you're a terrible person he survives a storm says by the grace of god save me writes this song later becomes a clergyman and huge uh abolitionist coming swinging back around and this song was recorded in harriet beecher

[98:00]stowe's uh uncle tom's cabin with extra verses that they added in the in the book it's a it's look at the wikipedia for amazing grace sometime it's a wild story that's that's i'm not following any of that but it sounds incredible this song has to be kind of like one of the might be too high you know matt talks about perfect songs i don't know if it's it has to be a perfect song i don't know if it goes on matt's 100 list of perfect songs or whatever but this is such like a seminal moment of arts doing the podcast like the greatest singer ever or one of the two or three without question

[98:31]singing this song like this is amazing right yeah you can sit sit on your couch close your eyes listen to all 12 minutes of this it is worth doing yes the only the only thing i don't get is i didn't hear the part of the beginning where a mc is it jim mcmahon no that's a quarterback right vince mcmahon jim mcmahon comes out he takes off his shades everybody's like what i've never seen that before vince mcmahon comes out and goes franklin look it up

[99:03]it's so good uh now listen next up precious memories this is the other song nominated for the grammys that year and this is matt's least favorite part right this is when reverend cleveland comes out and starts talking yeah oh yeah although he is i mean he's a gospel hero as well he's the king of gospel

[99:30]right is what they call him like it's i mean he's got an incredible voice man and i think this was his church right yeah well it's his choir he's the one who started that that that choir he i did find a cover that by dolly parton i thought was so good well i'm excited for this should we be just buying tina turner and dolly parton albums and living in the world what else are we doing and not